Symposium on Christian Reconstruction in the Western World Today (JCR Vol. 09)

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The Journal of Christian Reconstruction Book 17 · Chalcedon Foundation
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This issue of the Journal of Christian Reconstruction focuses on the specific and immediate application of Christian Reconstruction in our society today. Our major concern in this symposium is not with long-term future scenarios, such as a vast revival (although we pray for it every day), or some type of economic crisis (although this is likely enough), but with what we can trace of the blessed work of the Holy Spirit in applying the transforming Gospel of grace to all areas of our contemporary life and society here and now.


We conservative Christians have been fairly adept at discerning and describing the evils and impending disasters of our time. Calling evil by its true name is after all an important part of any biblically based prophetic ministry. Diagnosis is an essential part of the curative process in medicine, theology, and every other field. But at the same time, many of us have so tended to focus on the diagnosis of evil that we have failed to look up and see the widespread healing and impartation of new life that is going on all around us.

About the author

Douglas F. Kelly, Ph.D., is a research associate of Chalcedon, editor of the JCR, and a Southern Presbyterian minister.

R. J. Rushdoony, Ph.D., is the author of over 30 books and is director of Chalcedon.

Howard Ahmanson, a Christian layman, is a trustee of Chalcedon and a frequent writer in the Chalcedon Report. He is the director of a corporation in Newport Beach, California.

Jean Marc Berthoud is secretary of the Association Vaudoise de Parents Chretiens (AVPC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, a ministry dedicated to Christian Reconstruction in all phases of life in Switzerland. His ministry is exercising an ever-widening impact for the Kingdom of Christ in Switzerland and France. In addition to his full-time responsibilities as secretary of AVPC, he has to carry on a “tent-making” ministry through his work with the post office.

Martin G. Selbrede is a Christian layman in the Bay Area of California, a typographer, and an authority on the writings of B. B. Warfield.

Byron Snapp, B.D., is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in America. He is pastor of Salem Presbyterian Church, Gaffney, South Carolina.

Otto J. Scott, a Christian scholar and writer, is one of the leading biographers of the nation. He is an associate of Chalcedon. Among his numerous books are The Secret Six, James I, Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue, and The Professional: A Biography of J. B. Saunders. He is also a corporate consultant, and lives in San Diego, California.

John W. Saunders III (John Quade—stage name) is a Christian layman, a Hollywood actor and director of note, and a scholar in the field of contemporary art and communication through the media. He is a Chalcedon associate.

Ian Hodge is a former professional musician and music teacher, turned insurance salesman and promoter of Christian Reconstruction in Australia (New South Wales).

Mark R. Rushdoony, B.A., is a Chalcedon associate who specializes in American history. He is the son of R. J. Rushdoony and lives in Vallecito, California.

Ray Joseph, B.D., is an ordained minister and was recently the moderator of the Ohio-Illinois Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.

James Philip, M.A., is a minister in the Church of Scotland and has been pastor of Holyrood Abbey Church in Edinburgh since the late 1950s. His sermon tapes and books are distributed throughout the world.

Carlos D. Caldwell, B.D., is the minister of Good News Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. in Pasadena, California. Until recently he was also an agent with New York Life Insurance, but is now planning to devote full time to church work.

Fred A. Judy, A.A., B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Ed, is a businessman, founder of the Spiritual Center Church of Oxnard, California, and pastor.

James C. Gilmer, A.A., B.A., Bible college certificate, teacher, Dean of Instruction at Valley Christian University, assistant pastor of the Spiritual Center Church of Oxnard, California.

John M. Perkins, D.D., is founder of the Voice of Calvary Ministries, Jackson, Mississippi. He has written an autobiography, and most recently With Justice for All (which can be ordered from Voice of Calvary Ministries, 1655 St. Charles Street, Jackson, MS 39209).

J. Paul Landrey, B.D., is director of Mission Ministry for World Vision. He was born and raised in India of missionary parents with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He is a graduate of Azusa Pacific College, Pasadena College, and the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Darrell S. Sutton, T.H.B., is an ordained minister and directs a full-time prison ministry. He lives in Costa Mesa, California.

Lester Roloff, B.D., was a graduate of Baylor University, an ordained Baptist minister and evangelist, and founder and director of Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises in Texas, with a wide-ranging ministry to those who are in trouble with society.

Robert L. Alderman, D.D., is a graduate of University of South Carolina, Columbia Bible College, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Ft. Worth. He is a Baptist minister and has been pastor of Shenandoah Baptist Church since its beginning in 1970. His church has a very large Christian school.

Melvin G. Hodges, B.D., is a Baptist minister and pastor of First Baptist Church of Glen Oaks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is a seminary graduate and is founder and director of the Foundation for Christian Education in America. He is head of the largest all-black Christian school in America.

Margaret Aikens Jenkins is the founder-director of Celeste Scott Christian Elementary and Junior High School in Inglewood, California. She also founded and directs a charitable foundation called the Ladies of Song Mary Celeste Scott Memorial Foundation. She is head of a very large black Christian school.

Murray Norris, B.A., J.D., Ph.D., is a lawyer, a former newspaper editor, a Christian layman, and founder and director of Valley Christian University in Fresno, California, which has many related ministries, such as the National Pregnancy Hotline, Up With Families, and numerous others.

Duane H. Martin is a minister, an educator and is in charge of the Basic Education curriculum of Reform Publications Inc. He lives in Lewisville, Texas.

Lee Grady, B.A., is the managing editor of Maranatha Campus Ministries’ monthly publication, the Forerunner. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Berry College in Rome, Georgia. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Verne R. Kennedy, B.A., Ph.D., is president of Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi, which is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.

Donald E. Seim, B.S., M.D., is a medical doctor in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a Christian layman, and director of the Christian Heritage Foundation in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Nigel Cameron, B.D., Ph.D., is a minister of the Church of Scotland, a graduate of Cambridge University, and now full-time director of Rutherford House in Edinburgh.

P. Richard Flinn, B.D., is a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, located in Sunnynook, Auckland. He is editor of the Issacharian Report, which is working for Christian Reconstruction in New Zealand.

J. H. John Peet, M.D., is a Christian layman and a medical doctor in Guildford, Surrey, England, and is a scholar of Old Testament chronology.

Theodore P. Letis is a student at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

William Monroe, D.D., a Baptist minister, is founder and pastor of the large, independent Florence Baptist Temple in Florence, South Carolina, which has a strong Christian school and a bus ministry. He is chairman of the Moral Majority of South Carolina and has recently started an evening school offering college courses in his church.

Claude Patterson, B.D., an ordained minister and pastor of Herriman Chapel, near Eldorado Springs, Missouri, is mayor of Appleton City, Missouri, and was nominated for Congress in 1974.

Ron Zielinski is the director for the Southern California region of the California Roundtable, located at La Habra, California.

William Bentley Ball, J.D., is one of the leading constitutional attorneys in the United States. He is a Christian layman and practices with Ball & Skelly in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has argued several important cases before the U. S. Supreme Court, such as Wisconsin v. Yoder.

Paul D. Ackerman, Ph.D., is president of the Creation Social Science and Humanities Society, located in Wichita, Kansas.

Richard Douglas Green, B.S., a Christian layman and scientist of Dublin, California, has a degree in biochemistry and biology from California Polytechnic State University, has done graduate work at UCLA and UCSD, and does research for Fischer Scientific Company.

Geoffrey Thomas, B.D., is a Baptist minister and writer. He is pastor of Alfred Place Baptist Church (Independent) in Aberystwyth, Wales, and preaches frequently in the United States.

Caroline S. Kelly, M.A., B.D., is married and the mother of five children. She lives with her family in Murphys, California.

Michael Tuuri, a Christian layman of Livermore, California, is a technician in an atomic research laboratory.

Peter Leithart, is currently a graduate student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in history.

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